The Global Foundation for Management Education is a joint initiative of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). It aims to identify and address challenges and opportunities in the practice of management education worldwide, and also to advance its quality and content.

GFME’s most recent report, “From Challenge to Change: Business Schools in the Wake of Financial Crisis” is a collection of essays produced in collaboration with Emerald Group Publishing regarding envisioned and enacted changes in business schools and how these changes will impact management education in the future. The online version of the report currently features essays written by GFME board members, including deans and directors from the UK, Canada, US, Poland, Spain, and Thailand, as well as the directors and presidents of the world’s leading business school accrediting bodies. (See, for example “Education, Not Regulation: The Key to Global Prosperity” by AACSB International President and CEO John J. Fernandes).

Previous publications of the GFME include:

• “The Global Management Education Landscape: Shaping the Future of Business Schools” (2008)
  The Global Management Education Landscape looks closely at how business schools have been evolving in the light of major economic and business trends. The report explores the impact of these trends on business schools in every region of the world, and offers five recommendations for shaping the future of management education.
• “The Global Guide to Management Education” (2006)
  This survey of business and management education in more than 50 countries represents a first step towards developing appropriate business and management education for the 21^st century. Additional and updated country profiles are available on the GFME Web site.

More information is available on the GFME by visiting www.gfme.org.